India’s white-ball tour of Australia heads to Canberra and the T20s on Wednesday when the sides play the first of their five-game series in the format.

The matches, which follow the one-day internationals (ODIs) between the sides, mark a crucial contest as the nations prepare for the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.

India, fresh from beating Pakistan in the Asia Cup final in September, have won seven of the last eight T20 internationals between the sides and will be heavy favourites to defend their world title on home soil next year.

Al Jazeera Sport takes a closer to look at the crunch clashes in the series to come:

What happened in Australia and India’s one-day international series?

The Australians beat the tourists 2-1 in the one-day international series that began the

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